To this day, animal testing remains one of the most controversial issues in animal rights. Activists have been fighting ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...

According to a new study, your dog may learn language similar to how your toddler does, giving the term "fur baby" a whole new meaning.

If you lose your sight, you make up for it with other senses. If one arm is amputated, you learn to do twice as many things ...

For over 200 years, there has been just one species of giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis. This unmistakable African animal is easily recognized across the world. With their long necks and distinctive ...

Long before dinosaurs, Earth’s forests were ruled by a many-legged giant. Here’s why this millipede’s size still challenges ...

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

When we think of pigs, we inevitably think of happy livestock rooting around in the mud on a farm. But if you’ve ever taken a ...

In recent years, revelations of unethical horse handling at elite levels of horsesport have drawn attention to an ...

Turns out jellyfish and sea anemones – among the ancient creatures with a nervous system instead of a brain – have a very similar sleeping routine to our own. A new study published in Nature ...

Friendly, kind, welcoming, respectful, united, inclusive, safe, and free – these are the ways children have described what it ...